Innovation Videos

Steve Zornetzer, associate director of NASA Ames Research Center, talks about the space agency's plan to design eco-friendly buildings on earth using technologies developed for space exploration....

August 29, 2011 3:32pm

In order to perform surgery on children, doctors often have to jury-rig adult instruments to fit their needs. But Pablo Garcia, a principal engineer at SRI International is working to solve this...

1 | August 8, 2011 7:02am

New material developed by MIT and Harvard researchers could help millions of people with vocal disorders. The team has altered polyethylene glycol to create a synthetic substance that mimics the...

2 | July 15, 2011 4:23pm

Andre Anders, a senior scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, leads the team that develops technology for "smart" windows. The window glass lets more or less light into a building...

2 | July 5, 2011 5:31am

At NASA Ames Research Park, scientist Peter Wasowski has developed an alternative exercise machine called Vasper. The user wears compression cuffs on the arms and legs and core-cooling panels on...

7 | June 13, 2011 3:41pm

Pei Zhang, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is working on a mobile-sensor network that could send swarms of tiny helicopters into a building. The robotic helicopters are equipped with...

8 | May 26, 2011 8:13am

At NASA Ames Research Center, space scientist Farid Salama is taking data collected from their Cassini mission to Saturn's moon Titan and recreating the conditions here on Earth in NASA's...

4 | May 9, 2011 12:00am

Traditional customer surveys often require people to answer complicated questions on their computers. Ryan Panchadsaram, the co-creator of Funnel, has developed a simple way for smart phone users...

5 | May 3, 2011 8:37am

What store has the new iPad in stock? Who has the best deal on platform beds? Where can I buy Lady Gaga's sunglasses? In the future, technology will put the answer to these questions at your...

3 | April 7, 2011 8:54am

Robert Ritchie, a professor of material science at U.C. Berkeley, has created metallic glass, a material he believes is the strongest and toughest to date. At the school's lab, Ritchie and his...

17 | March 17, 2011 8:24am

"Content distribution has reached a scale that simply doesn't work," says Van Jacobson. The scientist and research fellow at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center talks to SmartPlanet's Sumi Das about...

5 | March 9, 2011 1:21pm

SmartPlanet takes a peek inside Tesla Motors' R&D lab and talks to CTO JB Straubel about the evolution of the electric vehicle and the technology behind the company's lithium ion battery pack.

3 | February 22, 2011 8:57am

They're a modern-day must. Anyone who's ever forgotten their credit card at home or worse, lost it, knows exactly how crucial that piece of plastic truly is. With rampant fraud and ID theft...

9 | February 9, 2011 2:41pm

According to analyst estimates, by 2020 the LED lighting industry will be close to a $25 billion market worldwide. LED lighting manufacturer Bridgelux wants to be on the forefront of this shift....

14 | February 3, 2011 12:56pm

As a life support engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, it's Michael Flynn's job to keep astronauts alive in space, making sure they have the basic necessities like clean water to survive. But...

15 | January 13, 2011 8:20am